Bill Nelson

NAMEDESCRIPTIONCITYSTATE
BIRTHPLACEHOSPITAL NOT SUREMIAMIFLORIDA
STUDIED MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL MELBOURNE FLORIDA
HE ATTENDEDUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAGAINESVILLEFLORIDA
HE TRANSFEREDYALE UNIVERSITYNEW HAVENCONNECTICUT
STUDIEDUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAWCHARLOTTESVILLEVIRGINIA
WORKED
NAME OF VEHICLENAME OF ORBITERMISSION NUMBERMISSION DESCRIPTIONLOCATIONCITYSTATE
SPACE SHUTTLESPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA STS 61 CThe primary objective of the mission was to deploy the Satcom K1 communications satellite, second in a planned series of geosynchronous satellites owned and operated by RCA Americom; the deployment was successful. Columbia also carried a large number of small scientific experiments, including 13 Getaway Special (GAS) canisters devoted to investigations involving the effect of microgravity on materials processing, seed germination, chemical reactions, egg hatching, astronomy, atmospheric physics, and an experiment designed by Ellery Kurtz and Howard Wishnow of Vertical Horizons to determine the effects of the space environment on fine arts materials and original oil paintings, flying four of Kurtz’s paintings into spaceN/AN/AN/A